Analysis: The Modeling Industry's Darkest Secrets
The Modeling Industry’s Darkest Secrets
Today, Jennifer Sky is 37, a mature woman of the world; having been at the height of fashion and beauty, she is in her present avatar an authoress and advisor for upcoming, young models who leave small home towns with stars in their eyes. Some learn to walk the tightropes and handle fame and fortune easily; others don’t have it so good and have their worlds come crashing around them.
But not so long ago, Sky was 17 years old, young, inexperienced and totally unfamiliar with the ways of the world, especially in the field of beauty and fashion. She was another starry-eyed teenager out to realize her dreams.
At 16, Jennifer Sky left small-town Florida to travel to Tokyo for a summer modeling stint. There, she and other co-models were treated inappropriately and forced to work in an unethical environment. A highly glitzy and glamorous lifestyle, travelling in luxury cars, staying in luxury accommodation and escorting men in their mid-forties to meetings and evenings of leisure where drugs, drinks and dudes were aplenty, the young women did not realize that they were being taken advantage of. Looking back she …show more content…
She recollects how on one occasion she was flown to Mexico, drugged and forced to do a topless shoot. Not knowing the local language and with no one there to protect her rights, she felt cheated and defeated. Looking at herself on the cover of Sassy, she saw the body of a young girl trying to be a woman; the eyes, however betrayed a tinge of sadness at the ugly reality of it all. That’s when something snapped inside her and she went back home to Florida to re-think her future and start a healing process to bring back her self esteem and confidence.
As Jennifer says, “when the female body is a commodity, where are the lines
Today, Jennifer Sky is 37, a mature woman of the world; having been at the height of fashion and beauty, she is in her present avatar an authoress and advisor for upcoming, young models who leave small home towns with stars in their eyes. Some learn to walk the tightropes and handle fame and fortune easily; others don’t have it so good and have their worlds come crashing around them.
But not so long ago, Sky was 17 years old, young, inexperienced and totally unfamiliar with the ways of the world, especially in the field of beauty and fashion. She was another starry-eyed teenager out to realize her dreams.
At 16, Jennifer Sky left small-town Florida to travel to Tokyo for a summer modeling stint. There, she and other co-models were treated inappropriately and forced to work in an unethical environment. A highly glitzy and glamorous lifestyle, travelling in luxury cars, staying in luxury accommodation and escorting men in their mid-forties to meetings and evenings of leisure where drugs, drinks and dudes were aplenty, the young women did not realize that they were being taken advantage of. Looking back she …show more content…
She recollects how on one occasion she was flown to Mexico, drugged and forced to do a topless shoot. Not knowing the local language and with no one there to protect her rights, she felt cheated and defeated. Looking at herself on the cover of Sassy, she saw the body of a young girl trying to be a woman; the eyes, however betrayed a tinge of sadness at the ugly reality of it all. That’s when something snapped inside her and she went back home to Florida to re-think her future and start a healing process to bring back her self esteem and confidence.
As Jennifer says, “when the female body is a commodity, where are the lines